commixture
Example Sentences
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The volume of rain produced in the Condor’s water cycle is enormous, says Luna, thanks to a unique commixture of altitudes, endemic soils, and solar and wind patterns.
From Salon ● Feb. 10, 2013
Some apprehended a purifying virtue in fire, refining the grosser commixture, and firing out the aethereal particles so deeply immersed in it.
From Religio Medici, Hydriotaphia, and the Letter to a Friend by Sir Thomas Browne
The plots of which the Duke was the centre have been described with a due commixture of history and romance in Mr. Allen Upward's fascinating story, God save the Queen.
From Collections and Recollections by George William Erskine Russell
My companion got up, giving him a thin glance which I caught in its passage, and which expressed a strange commixture of resignation and fascination,—a sort of perverted exaltation.
From Four Meetings by Henry James
What is the real effect of all this commixture?
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 57, No. 355, May 1845 by Various
